Outlines of lectures on mental diseases / by Alexander Morison.

  • Morison, Alexander, 1779-1866.
Date:
1825
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Credit: Outlines of lectures on mental diseases / by Alexander Morison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    DISORDERS IN THE SLEEPING STATE. In sleep, accompanied with dreaming, some of the mental faculties are torpid, while others are active, in profound sleep, the involuntary organs alone pre- serve their activity. there is no consciousness of sensations or ideas, some entertain the opinion that these do occur, though very faint. exhaustion of one or more organs induces sleep in the whole. sometimes one or more of the external organs of sense does not associate in the general torpor, resemblance of dream and revery. increased torpor takes place in some organs during sleep. Superior capacity and address sometimes displayed in Somnambulism. ideas in dreams influenced by the law of association, comparison between the somnambulist and lunatic, sensations of the former correspond with the ideas regulating his actions.